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I just want to say, to everyone who reads this, thank you so much. For everything. I never imagined I would be this far in life and like a kids show, let alone My Little Pony! It was a strange feeling for me. What made me start watching ponies was actually a fanmade video made by MAST3RLINKX (which has since been removed, due to the account being terminated). It had Spike from A Dog and Pony Show drooling over Rarity walking towards the cave in Dragonshy, and it showed the Diamond Dog leader smacking her plot as well. I saw this and I thought to myself "Is this really in the episodes?? How can this be a kids show?" And so my journey started.

Apple Bloom jump S01E12

Apple Bloom is so happy for me.

My first episode was Call of the Cutie. I watched the whole episode, and pretty much enjoyed it. At the time, since I had no idea of what else was going on, I thought Apple Bloom was the main character, due to her being the main focus of the episode. After watching the episode, I really liked it, so I went into MAST3RLINKX's list and started watching from the beginning. Before I knew it, I had watched all the way to Over a Barrel, and was loving the show. I loved it so much, that I actually posted Over a Barrel on my Facebook, and even changed my Facebook avatar to derped Rainbow Dash from Fall Weather Friends.

I still had yet to know what a "Brony" was; I had seen some comments here and there about it on the youtube videos I watched, and to my surprise, most of the comments were coming from people like me, which also thrilled me to know I wasn't the only one. I think I remember looking at Equestria Daily a couple times to find a certain thing I needed, but I didn't pay much attention to it.

Rainbow Dash salutes S1E07

Sign me up, I'm ready to serve!

Soon after, I found this wiki, where at the time only a couple admins were present. Being the kind of person I was, I automatically asked for adminship, which Throwawaytv responded I needed to have trust and good edits, so I did just that. About 10 or so edits in, on April 17, 2011, Throwy gave me admin powers, with the description I dunno lol (which to this day I still find amusing), and off I went.

At this point, I could not turn back. I have a habit of getting obsessed over something I like, and putting all of my attention into it (video games is a clear indication of this problem). Since this was a tv show, it was harder to try and get off it, because with games you can keep going until you beat it, or until you got bored of it. Neither happened here, and so my obsession grew.

During the summer of 2011, I got more acquainted with the "Brony fandom" and actually did projects for them. I read some fanfics (Cupcakes and Rocket to Insanity, to name a couple of them), I looked at art, and I did other things, such as watched videos and trailers. On a personal note, I wrote two fanfics (a third one is still in progress), I continued editing on this wiki, and I even did something I had never done before: made a PMV.

Twilight Sparkle with a bird's nest on her head S2E03

Me every time I finish a PMV (Except, maybe a little less creepy).

Before I had attempted my first PMV, I had been a starting out LPer (Let's Player, which means I record myself playing video games and put commentary over it) and my only experience of doing videos was starting and stopping the recordings, as well as edits done in Windows Movie Maker. I also was a music geek, and had been recording music from Super Smash Brothers Brawl into videos and posting them on my youtube (at the time, I was named shadowdemon137). Being this was my only training, I hadn't attempted a PMV before. Then one day, I got Screenflow, which is a recording software program that allowed me to do much more than I could with WMV and Camstudio.

During this time, I had seen a couple of pony trailers and PMV's, and wanted to make one of my own, but didn't exactly know how. As I was listening to music, I heard Caramelldansen playing, and I thought "This song matches Pinkie so perfectly." Suddenly, the idea hit me. I checked youtube quickly to see if anyone else had made my idea, and to my excitement, no one did. I quickly put Screenflow and my iTunes purchases of the episodes to work, and after two days (while traveling to California with my family), I finished my first PMV, titled Maramelldansen. I sent it to EqD, and when they accepted it, I was thrilled. With this excitement, I continued making more videos, each one getting a spot in EqD, and making my heart flutter (I'll post a list at the end, if you want to watch them). I had also been working on my fanfictions that I wrote, and even got one in EqD, titled Split Love (warning: NSFW). It currently stands at three stars, and has a bunch of inspiration from Cupcakes. (Fun Fact: Cupcakes actually made me start writing fanfictions). Since then, I have written two more fanfics (one currently under construction), titled Angel Hill and Cloak and Bragger, and I want to finish them, but keep getting distracted. But, I digress...

Pinkie Pie "Brilliant" S2E11

Hold on to your hooves... I am just about to hit 100,000!

As I continued making my videos, something caught on with Maremelldansen, eventually giving me 100,000 views and a loving spot as one of the best. Then, out of nowhere, EqD placed a restriction on PMV's, only accepting the ones with "great effects and lip-synching", and that kind of hurt my motivation to continue making PMV's, but I still did. During this time, I had also been uploading episodes of MLP onto my youtube in 1080p, using the iTunes versions as recordings. Suddenly, Hasbro got more strict on videos on Youtube, and my account got terminated due to the copyright strikes made. This, as you may wonder, destroyed most, if not all, of my motivation. After a couple months, I used my back-up account to upload my old PMV's, as well as one I spent a couple months on. I still lack motivation, but hopefully this summer I will be back on track and get more PMV's out, and hopefully finish my fanfictions.

Wow, that was a lot of writing. But long story short: I joined the fandom, I joined the wiki, I made fanfictions, I made videos, I lost my videos, I regained my videos, so on, so forth. This was basically a background story on me, for those that were interested in what I have done over the year I have been here on the wiki.

Pinkie offering cider S2E15

I believe this wiki deserves a drink for being so bucking awesome!

Speaking of the wiki, I am purely amazed at the progress made on here. I mean seriously, my first edit on the Pinkie Pie page was when it looked like this, Rainbow Dash looked like this, even Derpy looked like this. Now look at it! It looks amazing, and I couldn't be more prouder. After 6,000+ edits on this wiki, and becoming a bureaucrat (one of my goals for this wiki), I am honored to say I enjoyed working with each and every one of you.

Some people that I need to thank though specifically, will be listed now:

  • Throwawaytv, for being the first person I ever met here and making me an admin in the first place. Thanks dude :)
  • Nathan2000, for being a great bureaucrat and administrator over the time I've been here, even though he has left now.
  • Tulipclaymore, Teyandee, and Callofduty4, for being some of the damn best bureaucrats I have the privilege of working together with.
  • Mylittlewut and EquZephyr, for being my first greatest friends on the Chat and even having late-night conversations about anything.
  • All of the administrators on this wiki, for doing such a great job on this wiki and keeping it one of the best wikis I've ever seen.
  • All of the hardworking regular contributors, that even though you are not admins, you still edit like one, and I have to give major applause and gratitude for them.
  • Everyone in the fandom, good or bad, for making this my first and greatest fandom I have ever been in, and hope it continues that way.
  • The crew of MLP: FiM, for making such an incredible show that I will love and cherish for the rest of my life, and maybe even spread to the next generation.
  • Hasbro, for allowing such a show to even exist, and to even cater to the fans, such as show-accurate toys and names that the fandom loves.
  • Lauren Faust, for being such a role model and creating this wonderful show, as well as making other incredible shows.
  • My personal friends, especially my brony friends, for understanding my love for this show, and accepting who I am.
  • My family, for not teasing me too roughly about loving a show for little girls.
  • Lastly, I would like to thank... Umm... Fluttershy, for being so damn cute.
Overdue bachelor party S02E26

Twilight can't wait for season 3 and more editing.

TL;DR: Thank you all, for everything. I couldn't be more prouder to be a bureaucrat for this wiki, and to be a fan of such an incredible show. This is Shadowdemon137, signing off, and hoping for an epic season 3.

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